No matter which way you shoot these shorts there is something not quite normal about them.
If I were to suggest Topshop jump on the bandwagon of other indie retailers and start naming their products I would expect this garment to be named Sylvia. Something about the butterflies, soft inky print, feminine pleating, and off white-ness remind me of heroine of 80's rom-com '3 men and a baby'...Sylvia.
Try as I might to justify their purchase, and love them as I do, I am still somewhat wary of them. I don't think they will be faithful to me as you hope a statement buy would. They should caress my thighs in a way that coos "I will compliment any top you wear me with, give the illusion of long legs, accentuate your figure, and be the envy of all run of the mill a-line skirts". Except they don't quite.
What they do do is make me feel the excitement of dressing up clothes, that if I wore them to bed I would be pyjama chic, that if this were the 80's I would wear them with a wide brimmed hat and baggy vest on the beach perhaps. But I was born in the 80's, and I am not fearless.
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